The filmmaker known as Éric Rohmer was born Maurice Schérer in 1920. For the first half of his life he seemed destined for a career as a minor literary figure. Rohmer’s younger brother René Schérer (1922-2023) succeeded in this, becoming a well-known (indeed somewhat notorious) academic philosopher, while Rohmer himself failed the entrance exams for the École normale supérieure three times, and settled for a life as an impecunious Classics teacher in Paris. At the age of 37 he married, and spent six years as the editor of the Cahiers du cinéma, which was then the most influential film journal in the world.
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